Essex County Cricket League Premier Division champions Scintilla CC are supporting Dementia Awareness Week. The team posed for a picture with their Dementia Friends badges and information leaflets to highlight the cause. Club Captain Ahmed Choudhury said: “Dementia affects young ...

#DoSomethingNew!  Life doesn’t end when dementia begins – as public health staff from Tower Hamlets Council will try to show you during the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Awareness Week, which runs from 17th to 23rd May. Doing something new could be ...

Popular television personality and resident house doctor on This Morning Dr. Ranj Singh has joined the Dementia Friends Campaign to help raise awareness of dementia among South Asian communities. The Dementia Friends campaign aims to give people an understanding of ...

Public Health England and a leading health charity have joined forces in a new campaign to tackle one of the biggest health issues facing England and a growing issue for ethnic minority communities. The Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends initiative aims ...

ELN COMMENT: A spirit of constructive governing broke out at Tower Hamlets Council on 27th July 2022 – the first scheduled full Council meeting since the election (the AGM in May dealt only with formalities). It was so different from ...

EASTERN CONNECTION are holding women’s coffee mornings on Tuesday mornings at the Carpenters & Docklands Centre. All women are welcome, but please register first by calling 07533-364 862. ●Read more about it: Company Drinks hold community open house Dabirul Choudhury ...

JOHN BIGGS has been at it again – closing down facilities which serve some of the most vulnerable members of the community in Tower Hamlets.  It is a move which saw users of Council day care centres stage a public ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCILLORS: what are they like? The hot topic in the Borough is the decision of Executive Mayor John Biggs to impose new contracts (“Tower Rewards”) on the Council workforce.  Do Labour Councillors back him or not? Ten councillors ...

Emdad Rahman WORLD CUP WINNER and former Republic of Ireland football manager Jack Charlton has died at the age of 85. The Leeds United legend spent his entire 21 year playing career at Elland Road as part of the 1969 ...

Muhammad Hamza STEPNEY SHAHJALAL will be taking part in this year’s Muslim Charity Run, which is now in its eighth consecutive year. The 5km endurance test has been the ultimate way of uniting good causes with fitness, proving to be ...